Stopping the problem of name changes

[rmanimal]

I think there might be a way to get this whole "lose your rank" thing fixed. I've seen the forum message "Due to recent name changing additions, don't change your name if you're a mod, OP or greenie." Here's some options I came up with:
1. Points. Set it so when someone beats HC, they get 1,000,000 points or some amount impossible to ever reach on the server. Since you are allowed to /checkpoint convert, this could work (just don't let the 1,000,000 points confuse how many you really have).
2. Teams. Make it so there's a button that switches a person from blue to green team. There's multiple other functionalities for this, too.
/kill @p[team=!Orange].
/tp @p[team=Green] 1 1 1
(Untested, as I'm not sure if teams carry over)
3. Forums. Make a "thread file" where people can say what their original and new name are so OP's can check if they're the same IP and transfer their rank back Downside is, lots of work for OP's and admins
4. Questionnaire. Like point 3, except you make the new person answer questions they set when they were the previous username. (Just in case you can't actually check someone's IP address, or the new person has a new IP)

None of these are a guarantee to work, but they can lead to stopping the name changes ruining the beauty of name changes

 

[rickyboy320]

I think there might be a way to get this whole "lose your rank" thing fixed. I've seen the forum message "Due to recent name changing additions, don't change your name if you're a mod, OP or greenie." Here's some options I came up with:
1. Points. Set it so when someone beats HC, they get 1,000,000 points or some amount impossible to ever reach on the server. Since you are allowed to /checkpoint convert, this could work (just don't let the 1,000,000 points confuse how many you really have).
2. Teams. Make it so there's a button that switches a person from blue to green team. There's multiple other functionalities for this, too.
/kill @p[team=!Orange].
/tp @p[team=Green] 1 1 1
(Untested, as I'm not sure if teams carry over)
3. Forums. Make a "thread file" where people can say what their original and new name are so OP's can check if they're the same IP and transfer their rank back Downside is, lots of work for OP's and admins
4. Questionnaire. Like point 3, except you make the new person answer questions they set when they were the previous username. (Just in case you can't actually check someone's IP address, or the new person has a new IP)

None of these are a guarantee to work, but they can lead to stopping the name changes ruining the beauty of name changes

1: Greenies still want to get points aswell.
2: That would be a lot of work, and is quite too late now. - also, commandblocks do not run custom commands, and scriptblocks do not have a team selector(I think).
3: We got that already!
4: We could always check UUIDs, so that shouldn't be an issue.

The reason a few greens that have been demoted by this issue are still blue is that it does require a lot of work, and we put namechanging in a low priority queue. It may take more than a week for those who changed name, and lost their perms, depending on how busy the ops are.

But I thank you for thinking with us